The Egyptian of ??wty is not fully known, but may be reconstructed as *?i?autī, based on the Ancient Greek borrowing Θ?θ Thōth or Theut and the fact that it evolved into Sahidic Coptic vario ...
Modern Egyptian history is generally believed to begin with the French expedition in Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The French defeated a Mamluk-Ottoman army at the Battle of the Pyramids, a ...
An estimated 82.2 (2012) million Egyptians live around the world, but the vast majority are in Egyptabout 94% (74 million) of the total population call themselves "ethnically Egyptians" of which ca.4 ...
Arabic music is usually said to have begun in the 7th century in Syria during the Umayyad dynasty. Early Arabic music was influenced by Byzantine, Indian and Persian forms, which were themselves heavi ...
The clay tablet was used by scribes who took down the events of what was happening during his time. Tools that these scribes used were styluses with sharp triangular tips, making it easy to leave mark ...
The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present day Ras Shamra, Syria), in a st ...
In origin, Hindu? was Old Persian name of the Indus River, cognate with Sanskrit word Sindhu. By about 2nd - 1st century BCE, the term "Hein-tu" was used by Chinese, for referring to North Indian peo ...
The Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" is derived from the root vid- "to know". This is reconstructed as being derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *u?eid-, meaning "see" or "know".As a nou ...
Indian music is traditionally taught via oral methods and, until the 20th century, did not employ notations as the primary media of instruction, understanding, or transmission. The rules of Indian mus ...
The science of archaeology (from Greek ?ρχαιολογ?α, archaiologia from ?ρχα?ο?, arkhaios, "ancient" and -λογ?α, -logia, "-logy") grew out of the older multi-disciplinary study kn ...
In the aftermath of the Indus Civilization's collapse, regional cultures emerged, to varying degrees showing the influence of the Indus Civilization. In the formerly great city of Harappa, burials hav ...
The ruins of Harappa were first described in 1842 by Charles Masson in his Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, where locals talked of an ancient city extending ...
The ravanahatha is believed by the indigenous Sinhalese ethnic majority to have originated among the Hela civilization of Sri Lanka in the time of King Ravana. The bowl is made of a cut coconut shell ...
Early string instruments have been excavated in ancient Mesopotamia, like the lyres of Ur, which date to 2500 BC.Types of instruments Construction String instruments can be divided in three groups.Lut ...
The femur is the only bone in the thigh. The two femurs converge medially toward the knees, where they articulate with the proximal ends of the tibiae. The angle of convergence of the femora is a majo ...
